Personally I’d say every single product and service being transparently wrapped in a personal information honeypot
Just give me your ID bro. It’s totally to protect the kids bro.
So like… all of it?
In case someone needs help:
Uber/Lyft
Airbnb
Bitcoin/Crypotocurrency
ChatGPT/LLMs
Because you have 2/4 general terms:
- Rideshare
- Short term rentals
- Crypto
- LLM
Cryptocurrency not Cryptography to disambiguate again
Thanks, new anxiety unlocked
Cryptozoology? I KNEW IT WAS GONNA BE FUCKING BIGFOOT!!!
Sorry, at this point the term “crypto” has been thoroughly claimed by the shysters.
Tales from the Crypt
shouldnt 4 also include AI generated images?
Better term would probably be generative AI to also cover music, video and my grandmother’s soul.
Llms generate those afaik
No, those are generally diffusion models, not large language models. Language models generate text.
Uber/Lyft
Airbnb
Apart from the recently added surge pricing, what else is illegal about these 2?
They literally exist as a way for tech bro libertarian idiots to circumvent laws around Taxis and Hotels because “Its totally just people rending their own stuff/time bro.”
Like, the idea of Uber where its “we go to work along the same route,lets share a ride” is vaguely admirable, ie “rideshare” where it startrd. But its become people’s job and its literally just tsxis without the rules.
To be fair, they were popular at first because they were highly convenient. I remember Uber as the first to have a GPS map that told you where your taxi was. Most taxi companies and hotels were seriously lagging behind in terms of use of technology.
That being said, they were malicious companies from the start and the whole business angle was built on taking advantage of loopholes. I’d be fine with a lot of them if they were nationally owned companies though.
They were also presented as being cheaper and more ethical. You didn’t risk being roped into paying a higher price because the cabbie deliberately took a long route, or be surprised by the price being different in person. You could order an Uber, and you’d pay only what was in the app.
Due to how much circumvention goes around here (India) anyway, Uber/Ola actually ends up being a better option overall.
And the map feature ends up being pretty useful.
dependent on where you are, they are textbook skirting the law. uber got crushed when they launched in sweden because taxi drivers need to do basically the same training as bus drivers. it’s an extra letter on your license, with all that entails of age limits, theory and practical tests, x amount of time driven a year etc.
nowadays ubers in sweden are just taxis, which hilariously means that they by law have to have a price list on the cars. which basically kneecaps their entire business model.
Taxis and hotels used to be strongly regulated industries. For both, permits were required as well as regular checks. But Uber/Lyft/Airbnb created a system outside of the standard legal framework, allowing them to run an almost lawless business. So I wouldn’t say illegal but ethically grey.
oic, I guess it doesn’t make much of a difference where relevant laws are either pretty lax or inadequately executed.
I like those note-taking apps that require my location for a better user experience
What do you mean you don’t want location tags in your notes?
Omg stop it, you are making me nervous. Okay, I will Accept terms and conditions
Forgot “Glorified Pump-&-Dump scheme” (NFT’s)
NFTs are basically Bitcoin and fall under fake money for criminals.
Stamp collecting for criminals
“Expensive cartoon monkey pictures”
I personally hate the “thanks to AI you now can speak to your dead relatives” ones. Especially those ones which try to spin it like a personal story for the developer of the app. Oh shut up, you would sell your own mother for money. And also you are too late to jump on that bandwagon so get lost, we have enough of you leeches.
Literally the exact plot of a black mirror episode.
I swear there are some people watching Black Mirror and furiously taking notes
And it was such a heartbreaking experience, I dont know who saw that and said yes daddy please.
Well black mirror is a documentary
Also the hit comedy Small Wonder that ran from 1985-1989?
I HATED that show.
On a related note, I personally hate the AI partner/friend ones as well, where it’s clearly preying on the lonely, insecure, or desperate. It’s dastardly, dystopian, and frankly, quite sad. How many children’s media show rich children as being quite miserable sods whose parents think that not having friendship can be resolved by buying their kids a friend?
You could easily see that being in a cyberpunk story, where you can rent a friend or partner from a megacorporation, but if you don’t pay the rent, they’ll be repossessed and deleted/destroyed. The data would be collected and used regardless.
yeah was gonna mention those too but hate the relatives one even more passionately so focused on that.
That’s a pretty cool idea for a story, actually. I’d totally steal that if I wasn’t so lazy
The Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don’t Create The Torment Nexus.
How about
- reinventing trains but worse
- rocketing amount of space launches filling up junk
- we deliver everything but once we take over it’ll all be crap rip off products (for slave wages)
- we deliver any food by people who can’t drive (for slave wages)
- we’ll create algorithms to enforce society divisions and hurt mental health of children
- we’ll take over a popular platform and make it even more disgusting and fascist
Need to add illegal gambling to the list
Naw, crime is legal now.
What’s worse?
Illegal gambling in traditional sense (poker, dice, slots, etc) or legal gambling loopholes like video game lootboxes? 🤔
Probably loot boxes since it more directly targets children
Much like flavored tobacco or alcoholic drinks directly target children. /s
Downvote but no argument? It’s exactly the same kind of logic being used to push age verification laws.
Protecing children is a parents job first and foremost, all the excuses I hear from parents read to me like maybe you shouldn’t have had children if you can’t dedicate the time to educating yourself and watching over their activities to a minimal degree.
All the laws being proposed and implemented generally just impact adults much more then children anyway.
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b3c5d436-a7ba-4657-8a9d-0fec9edce801.png?thumbnail=1500&format=webp
Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?
Where’s “removal of a common phone feature, because if you don’t buy a $528 external DAC and a $9164 planar headphones, you’ll be okay with a pair of raycons”?
Where’s “video games that you never actually own, but at least you pay to beat them”?
This new and groundbreaking technological innovation?
So gatcha games are just video games returning to their roots?
It gets funnier when people do everything they can to not even play them, even paying to cheat
It’s like Idiocracy and the waiting guy
https://media.tenor.com/k8VaJE8rchAAAAAM/patience-waiting.gif
It so happens that stuff useful for criminals is sometimes also useful for political dissidents or simply people who consider the country’s laws too oppressive. Encrypted communication is another example of this.
Even and especially in those cases cryptocoins are a very bad idea. Just because it’s “a” solution doesn’t mean it’s a good one
sometimes
and sometimes firearms are used in defense.
do the valid reason justify the illicit reasons? you’ll certainly say they do but I’m a bit more undecided.
What would we do without capitalist innovation? Before capitalism, nothing was invented. Look at us now!
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“Exploiting immigrants to deliver food”
Wait till you learn about their latest innovation!
Exploiting individuals from other countries to bypass labor laws in the country of business operation via distributed outsourcing. Why even pay minimum wage in the US?
I like this meme every time I see it here on anarchist forums.
well now we can add on: “illegal gambling on literally everything”
and “1984 level surveillance being sold to the government instead of being done by them directly so somehow legal”
… maybe something about giant ai networks of murder robots waging war?
fuck why did we have to get the worst cyberpunk sci-fi future….I wish it was literally everything. I want to buy Trump insurance.
Oooh 16% chance by December! You’ve brightened my day.
well that percentage is just determined by
bettingpurchases of stocks related to the outcome of a prediction….
and i think magats are over represented on there, so i’d put the odds at higher than that.
i’ll put the cynicism behind a spoiler tag butspoiler for brightened days
president jd vance will be worse than president trump… also trump being impeached was always part of the Proj 2025 plan. We could end up with V.P. Steve Bannon, then JD could resign and then, Adolph’s your uncle.
I like this comment every time I see it posted in response to this meme. Then I hit subscribe, then I SMASH THAT BELL ICON SO YOUR MOBILEK SHIVERS WITH ECSTACY IN YOUR POCKET WHENEVER I POST AN UPDATE
Found the Funholeite
Hmmm … the technology that is literally driving people insane so a few investors can make advertising money
What about dystopian surveillance tech?
Isn’t that all of the above?
Cant crypto actually be good for privacy?
Not at all, the ledger is public, it’s not tied to names, only IDs but it’s trivially easy to tie a person to a Bitcoin account if they’re under surveillance
If you live in a country that cares about law you might attract attention with a large Bitcoin balance and enough transactions to tie it to you
In practice, not really.
That is more a fronteir llm thing…
I think quite a bit of what they are trying could with some optimization be run local thus no need to send entire context windows to big tech (sure this hypothetical model would know less trivia but in an agent system would be able to look it up)
But of course big tech and other large orgs like hording all your data for profit.
